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- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Robert Eldridge, Bookseller, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.Robert Eldridge, Bookseller
AbeBooks seller since June 6, 2017
Condition: Used - Fine
£ 269.24
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MacDonald, George. David Elginbrod. Boston: Loring, Publisher, Cor. Bromfield and Washington Streets, n.d. [1872]. First U.S. edition, first issue. A second issue, in a plainer binding, was issued at a later date (identifiable also by the publisher's new address of 205 Washington Street. Octavo, pp. [1-2] 3-459 [460: blank] [flyleaf inserted at front and rear]. Original dark green decorative cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and black, rear panel ruled in blind, brown coated endpapers. The eclectic and rather flamboyant binding style is typical of the 1870s. An ink gift inscription in a fine hand, dated Christmas 1881, adorns the title page. A fine copy of this very handsome book. #3538. $350. Published originally in 1863, this was the first of Macdonald's regional Scottish novels but it continued to explore tendencies shown in Phantastes (1858) and his earlier collections of poetry: a passionate but idiosyncratic Christian theology, an indebtedness to the Romantic aesthetics of Blake and the German fantasy novelists, and the power of symbolism. In Richard Reis's author 1972 study for the Twayne English Authors Series, he states, "Already in Phantastes and David Elginbrod he was a mystic of a sort, had worked out the tenets of his personal religion, and had displayed a mastery of symbolic technique scarcely equaled in his era." The villain, Count Funkelstein, is a sinister hypnotist who induces somnambulism, hallucinations and madness. The author was sometimes classed during his lifetime (along with Dickens and Wilkie Collins, among others) as a purveyor of "sensational" fiction -- a generic term that remained current for nearly a half-century. In Robert Lee Wolff's critical study of MacDonald (The Golden Key, 1961) he acknowledges the book's faults but discusses it at length and points out that it was not only his first effort at a long realistic narrative but also an effort to combine realistic techniques with Gothic themes and deeply considered theological polemics, not forgetting sensational effects. Shaberman 14, noting this Loring edition as "the first American publication.".…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- David Elginbrod
- Author
- MacDonald, George
- Publisher
- Loring, Boston
- Publication year
- 1872
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardback
- Edition
- First Edition.
Robert Eldridge, Bookseller
Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since June 6, 2017
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When I began my bookselling business in 1996 I called it "Eldritch Books" because that adjective at least partly covered the type of material I offered (and because its similarity to my own surname seemed so -- eldritch). "Ghost stories" would be another handy, if somewhat reductive, term. Most of it is fiction from the 19th and early 20th century with a strong emphasis on the fantastic. Since the most familiar and relevant genre terms in use today -- "science fiction," "fantasy," "supernatural," "horror" -- were not so much in use when these books were first published, pegging them that way can be anachronistic. But that should give you the general idea. I don't have much in the way of American pulp (either in magazine or specialty press book form) but otherwise my interests range widely from high-brow to middle-brow to low-brow to amateur/eccentric. You're more likely to find rare and obscure works here than high spots. (Or at least they're obscure now, whatever their status was when first published.) In 2001 I went to work for L. W. Currey as cataloguer and general assistant. Since 2014 I've been back working on my own. I have exhibited at convention fairs (such as WFC and Readercon) in the past. I began collecting and studying antiquarian fantasy around 1980. Some of my essays have appeared in genre publications such as NYRSF, Wormwood and F&SF. I tend to carefully research my inventory and write extensive notes. (If another dealer wishes to make use of any of these notes, I'd appreciate the courtesy of putting such excerpts in quotes and giving proper attribution to me. That's what I do when I quote from any of my reference works.) I will be gradually listing my inventory on ABE over the coming years. I hope you find something of interest. …
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Robert Eldridge, Bookseller
NY, U.S.A.
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Robert Eldridge
P. O. Box 293
Elizabethtown NY 12932
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